Rest for Half a Lifetime

Lin Shutong was born into a privileged middle-class family, but her material wealth was rewarded by her parents' desire to control. Her father often used "nurturing grace" to coerce her, but her innate talents - photographic memory and self-taught artistic talent, in the eyes of conservative elders, she became an alien who "does not do her job properly". On the way to school, her talent was suppressed. Her "shortcomings" in math scores were used as an excuse to stifle her artistic dreams. Her teacher forcibly prohibited her from learning painting. The double negation from her family and school made her fall into deep self-doubt. During the college entrance examination, she became angry because of her father's brutal interference in her choice, and was forced to study in the Chinese Department of a junior college. When she was promoted from junior college to bachelor's degree, she withstood the ridicule of her family and relied on her super memory to counterattack and get admitted to a full-time undergraduate degree. However, her path to postgraduate entrance examination was once again blocked by her family. In the end, she had no choice but to prepare for the teacher establishment, but she accidentally landed because she was too strong. After joining the elementary school, Lin Shutong felt deeply that her soul was imprisoned, and the small space on the podium became her spiritual prison. But her love for art has never been extinguished. She always insisted on self-consistency with her brushes and struggled to reinvent herself. In the end, with the help of publisher Shen Manqing, she broke through the workplace with her literary talent; she met artist Lu Wenyuan again, and finally recovered her dusty artistic soul, completed reconciliation with her original family, and regained a new life.